Comments on: Faces of America and Genetic Genealogy Testing

By: vooyle

vooyle — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:34:30 +0000

I think the “within 250 years” was just a goal. In the end, they just match people anyway possible to show all people are related. On the Oprah Show, Dr. Gates said the common ancestor between Mike Nichols and Dr. Mehmet Oz was about 9,000 years ago.

By: race/history/evolution notes: Miscellaneous links

race/history/evolution notes: Miscellaneous links — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:20:22 +0000

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By: bh

bh — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:20:49 +0000

i enjoyed the show but thought the genetic comparison bit at the end got a bit confusing also. My interpretation of the relationship between Mike Nichols and Mehemt Oz was that they shared a middle eastern Y chromosome match rather than autosomal. My interpretation of the match between Mike Nichol and Meryl Streep is a shared central European ancestor – perhaps even shared mtDNA – is that tested by 23andMe?

By: Rusty Erpenbeck

Rusty Erpenbeck — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:59:08 +0000

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:21:42 +0000

Could this be the technique used by Daly and Altshuler, mentioned in the episode: http://genome.cshlp.org/content/19/2/318.abstract (“Whole population, genome-wide mapping of hidden relatedness”)?

By: The Slovak Yankee: Documenting Back 10 Generations

The Slovak Yankee: Documenting Back 10 Generations — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:56:48 +0000

[...] ancestor within 10 generations or 250 or so years back. It should be noted that not even the Genetic Genealogist had heard of this test nor could he find any article in the literature that discussed it.My contention was that you can [...]